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Reflections and comments from an Old Timer in the Technology World.Sun, 21 Jan 2018 07:13:46 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8OldTimeBloggerhttps://feedburner.google.comAcer Iconia A500 GPS Issues – Active Antenna GPS390Nhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OldTimeBlogger/~3/CTb4-_7-kQE/
http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/2012/08/01/acer-iconia-a500-gps-issues-active-antenna-gps390n/#commentsWed, 01 Aug 2012 13:24:42 +0000http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/?p=174I reported in my last post of what I thought was a heat problem causing the GPS to stop finding any satellites. Well I opened up my Acer Iconia A500 and find that it is using an Active Antenna. What is that, well it means that the Antenna is external to the GPS chip and contains an Antenna (Aerial) and [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OldTimeBlogger/~4/CTb4-_7-kQE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/2012/08/01/acer-iconia-a500-gps-issues-active-antenna-gps390n/feed/2http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/2012/08/01/acer-iconia-a500-gps-issues-active-antenna-gps390n/Acer Iconia A500 GPS Fail When Hothttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OldTimeBlogger/~3/qRnQaue7rqU/
http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/2012/07/29/acer-iconia-a500-gps-fail-when-hot/#respondSun, 29 Jul 2012 03:13:52 +0000http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/?p=168I am just back from few weeks in the tropics of Far North Queensland. I now have ICS and the GPS seemed to be working a lot better since the update. Now I have found that my Iconia A500 Tab when warm, the GPS fails. All Satellites disappear after A500 has been on for a few minutes! The ambient temperature [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OldTimeBlogger/~4/qRnQaue7rqU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/2012/07/29/acer-iconia-a500-gps-fail-when-hot/feed/0http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/2012/07/29/acer-iconia-a500-gps-fail-when-hot/Acer Iconia A500 Ice Cream Sandwich Downloading Now In UK & Australia.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OldTimeBlogger/~3/a7Y7uO6l71A/
http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/2012/05/07/acer-iconia-a500-ice-cream-sandwich-downloading-now-in-uk-australia/#commentsMon, 07 May 2012 13:34:54 +0000http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/?p=165Just a quick post some time in last 3 hours the update to ICS has become available in UK and Australia. I had to do an update check after a friend in UK emailed me a couple of hours ago&#160; 7th May 2012 7pm Australia, UK 10am to say he was now downloading ICS. The download is very slow only [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OldTimeBlogger/~4/a7Y7uO6l71A" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/2012/05/07/acer-iconia-a500-ice-cream-sandwich-downloading-now-in-uk-australia/feed/1http://oldtimeblogger.com/wp/2012/05/07/acer-iconia-a500-ice-cream-sandwich-downloading-now-in-uk-australia/